finally got around to submitting the trailer to the Independent Film Channel’s online Medialab. it seems like a really fantastic resource for independent filmmakers and hopefully i’ll be putting up some more content there soon.

check it out: http://medialab.ifc.com/36invisible

be sure to vote!

thanks.

slowly/steadily adding media clips to the main site.

right now there’s a short montage and the trailer for red letters, but there’s much, much more i’ll be uploading in the near future so stay tuned.

the biggest hurdle is breaking down a previously cut reel from dvd— with its own flow and style for that format—into more digestible web-ready units. it’s refreshing to be going back over these films again but also very time consuming.

enjoy: showreel

ps. codewise, i’m displaying the content with a lightbox style effect via javascript, and while all of the code and everything i’m doing is standards complient, i’ve yet to test it on a windows machine.

so… if someone on a windows machine could let me know if you’re experiecing any quirks loading or watching the video, i’d much appreciate it. quicktime 7+ and javascript enabled are required. the content should load in an overlay of the page and not open up a new window or take you away from the current page.

i’ve always been a huge fan of Forest Whitaker. he (along with a few other actors) always embodies each and every roll he takes on and he’s done it again, incredibly so, in his Oscar winning performance in The Last King of Scotland.

another thing that i really appreciate about the film is how the writer blended the fictional with the real, injecting a fictional character in a historical story.

since this blog isn’t really intended to be a “film review” site, i won’t go further into detail, but if you’re up for an incredible movie (largely due to an incredible performance by Forest Whitaker), then definitely check it out.

this could easily lead into another “how in the hell did The Departed win best picture?” rant, but i’m not going to go there.

instead, let me just say that Children of Men is incredible.

i’d read about it a month or so ago in American Cinematographer and have been itching to see it ever since. unfortunately i didn’t make it to the theatre in time to see it on the big screen, but thankfully it’s out on dvd.

so much of this film was wonderful. the story, the theme, the acting, the cinematography, the directing, the directing, the directing. incredible. Alfonso Cuarón has a Felini-like ability to choreograph a sequence and his long-takes were perfect for the documentary-feel that he and Emmanuel Lubezki actualized masterfully.

there’s something wonderful going on with Latin American cinema and i’m very glad to be able to experience it.

the dvd extras include a really great minidoc that’s also not to be missed.

definitely see this film. you’ll be glad you did.

things are moving along steadily on the writing and development fronts at 36invisible so far this year.

in the works is a feature-length documentary (currently submitted for a major grant—fingers-crossed) and two feature-length narrative screenplays (both in various stages of revision).

Red Letters will also be touring with IFCT in the UK, Los Angeles, Orlando and New York City in the coming year and we’re definitely looking forward to that.

stay tuned.

This year the academy basically robbed Babel and Alejandro González Iñárritu of best film and best director respectively.

Best director? Yes Marty deserved an award, yes his body of work needed to be recognized, yes his films are masterful and unique, yes i attended the same grad film program that he did and will probably be chastised for this comment, but directing is about making choices and Iñárritu’s were flawless (yes even the casting of Pitt for that particular role). Marty, on the other-hand… not so much. The final image of the Departed (the rat) is just one such example.

I won’t go on about best film.